Oct. 18, 2026
Countdown To Halloween! Zombie Horror Pick #2 “Overlord”
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Sunday, October 18th, and right now a lot of people are looking for a good horror movie. Well, we got a good one here for you, but it almost starts off as a war movie. So without getting Roblox approval, I'm going to try a new genre that I am naming War. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T. I should have, I should have crowd, I should have checked with the crowd.
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Speaker 2: Oh my God. Yeah, that was.
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Speaker 3: Funny.
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Speaker 1: It's a war movie.
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Speaker 2: A war movie.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's a war movie.
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Speaker 2: Now, how do you add a zombie twist to it all?
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Speaker 1: Oh, stop it. What did we have earlier? It was a Zom... A Zomcom. Okay, that was new to us.
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Speaker 3: That was our number three pick for our... This is actually a zombie-themed Sunday. And so, yes, our number two is an unexpected, incredible movie that we actually both saw individually in the theaters. And I didn't think I was going to like it. Because I'm not like a war movie kind of a person necessarily. But man, did I fall in love with this movie.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't go into it thinking. I mean, I knew the theme and the backdrop that served for what is mainly a zombie horror movie. But the war part of it is done so well that if you didn't know you were in a horror movie. Robes, it takes a minute before that mystery. This is a wonderfully done, powerful war movie for a little while.
00:01:28
Speaker 2: War movie. You're right. It's just rolling right off the top.
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Speaker 1: It's catching on already. It is.
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Speaker 2: It's catching on. I can see it.
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Speaker 3: The movie we're talking about is Overlord. And it came out November 9th, 2018. And we just rewatched parts of it. And it's so good.
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Speaker 2: This is a movie.
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Speaker 1: It's heavy.
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Speaker 2: And it's a lot. It is action-packed. You're going to be on the edge of your seat.
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Speaker 3: And I think because it was so good, maybe I wanted to honor the memory of it.
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Speaker 2: And it's not something I've rewatched.
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Speaker 3: But now after just kind of wetting our palate with it again, I want to sit down and fully rewatch this movie.
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Speaker 2: It's that good.
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Speaker 1: And it's a wild ride from the beginning. And the action isn't light action. Like there is heavy fighting. And yes, even when the zombies and all this stuff shows up, there is a heaviness to all of the action and the jump scares and Even when you're finding out really what's happening and even before people start getting attacked, just the zombies themselves, how they come about. And the backstory of it all is a heavy theme that also goes with part of the war and who we're fighting.
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Speaker 2: The evil Nazis. Yes, it all goes back to the evil Nazis.
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Speaker 1: But please, folks need to know, this is not... a sit back and grab the popcorn. This is an intense movie.
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Speaker 2: You know what's funny?
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Speaker 3: So our number three, if you listened to our previous episode, we had our number three of the day of our zombie movies and.
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Speaker 2: The Dead Don't Die. This is literally the antithesis of that movie.
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Speaker 3: So if you're in for your well-acted, deadpan, kind of silly, funny, Zomcom, if you want the exact opposite experience, choose our number two film, And you will have a very different experience.
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Speaker 1: And you know, people are listening going, come on guys, give me something in the middle. Like we went one way with number three. I guess number one would maybe be in the middle. This one, if you watch the number three movies, Dead Don't Die, you go, come on, it's too slow. I can't deal with this. Put this one on. This will get you going. Yes.
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Speaker 3: Here's the synopsis of Overlord. On the eve of D-Day, American paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines to penetrate the walls of of a fortified church and destroy a radio transmitter. As the soldiers approach their target, they soon begin to realize that there's more going on in the Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation. Making their way to an underground lab, the outnumbered men stumble upon a sinister experiment that forces them into a vicious battle against an army of the undead.
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Speaker 1: That is a well-written synopsis. That's a good movie. Okay. If that is the subject of a movie, then you got something there. Now execute. And they execute it, babe, on that premise. It is so well done. The top of this movie, the beginning robes when they're in the plane, that whole scene is such an intense. That's a war movie. It is so well done. Even the characters, the guys are from Different backgrounds. You got the black guy that's being picked on. You got the guy from... Brooklyn. From Brooklyn.
00:04:37
Speaker 2: Chewing the gum.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's... He's like a newsie. They're great. They're great.
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Speaker 2: It's so good, yes.
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Speaker 3: And Giovanni Deppo, who is the black guy you were referring to, he is a very familiar face. He's actually a British black actor, but he's been in films like, oh, I don't know, The Odyssey. He was in The Leftovers. That was a very... highly acclaimed series on HBO. And then he was in Fences, you know, an Oscar movie there. So yes, with Denzel, he is amazing in this film. You fall in love with him. You're rooting for him the entire time.
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Speaker 1: He's the moral center of this movie.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: Everybody, even a lot of the good characters, even the woman they interact with. The French woman. She even has, right, some... And justifiable moral failings at times. This guy is the center. He sacrifices himself, almost the entire mission to do the simplest of things was to make sure a woman isn't harmed.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Right? He's a good lead.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you are.
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Speaker 3: And it's so important for a movie where you've got that person that you believe in, that you support, that you're rooting for. Now, Wyatt Russell is amazing. excellent in this movie. He is the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. And, you know, he, we were saying, we don't think he's done a lot. I love him in a black mirror episode, but he is so fantastic in this film. I wish he would do more because he's so good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's, um, he's, uh, which character he's, he's kind of the guy, he's the leader of the men and the unit. here but he is a he is a hard no frills you root for him we know yeah he's a good he's a he's a good.
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Speaker 3: Guy yes he he just he he does his he he performs so well like you feel something about his character and it's just it's He's an excellent part of this cast. Also, this was interesting. I looked at the director, Julius Avery. He also did one of our horror movie favorites, The Pope's Exorcist with Russell Crowe.
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Speaker 2: That was Sabine's first horror movie.
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Speaker 1: She loved that movie.
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Speaker 2: And it's really sinister and scary, by the way. We always like to add a little.
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Speaker 2: Fun movie recommendations in the middle of a movie recommendation.
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Speaker 3: And so, yes, The Pope's Exorcist is a very good, that's a good supernatural movie.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, throw that one.
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Speaker 3: It is.
00:07:03
Speaker 1: This is an honorable mention. We'll throw this. This is a bonus. Yes, he is. Russell Crowe really carries that movie.
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Speaker 3: He does.
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Speaker 1: He's a very rough kind of priest. Oh, yeah, he's really, really good.
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Speaker 3: Russell Crowe is hit or miss for me with a lot of movies, but he's great in this one.
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Speaker 1: He's always hit. You can't name him. You're not talking about Unhinged.
00:07:21
Speaker 3: Ladies and Rob. I'm going to talk about Les Miserables. I love that movie and he almost ruined it for me.
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Speaker 1: How?
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Speaker 2: Because he was terrible.
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Speaker 3: At what?
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Speaker 1: Singing. But he's not a singer.
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Speaker 2: He shouldn't have been cast.
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Speaker 1: Well, get mad at the casting director. Don't get mad at him for putting himself out there.
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Speaker 2: He almost ruined Les Miserables for me. I'm sorry. He did. But he was great in The Pope's Exorcist. And so was Julius Avery, who directed both.
00:07:45
Speaker 1: Now, J.J.
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Speaker 3: Abrams is a producer in this as well.
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Speaker 2: And that totally reads this.
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Speaker 1: Because you know what?
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Speaker 3: It feels Stephen King-esque to me. The premise, the guys, the camaraderie. You've got the moral dilemma. You've got the evildoer. And then you've got a surprise twist in this German laboratory that's wreaking havoc. It had those hallmarks to me. But then when I saw J.J. Abrams was a part of this. then that made a lot of sense. Now this movie is a little bit longer. Uh, we do like our hour 30. That is our sweet spot. But this got, um, this comes in at an hour and 50 minutes, but it is nonstop action.
00:08:19
Speaker 2: You won't even, the time will fly.
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Speaker 3: In fact, um, truth be told, we were, we're actually in a hotel room and we were trying to pack and we were just putting it on and I was stopping packing because I couldn't stop watching the movie.
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Speaker 2: And you were like, babe, you know, we're not actually, we don't have time to rewatch the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: But I got sucked into the movie and, And I got up close to the TV and I just wanted to watch it.
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Speaker 1: This is a rare one, isn't it, Robes? That horror movie that also qualifies, I would say, as an action movie.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: There is more movement and action and things going on than you would, I think, get in most horror movies. And that is separate from a lot of the horror action that takes place in this movie. It made me think of World War Z. A little bit. There's a lot always going on.
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Speaker 3: That was a contender for this day. But we could do that as an honorable mention. But you thought it was too.
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Speaker 2: obvious.
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Speaker 3: Like, everyone knows World War Z, so we're not putting it on anyone's radar.
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Speaker 1: That's a good one. But if you don't know World War Z, we'll throw that one in there for the bonus.
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Speaker 2: And zombies.
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Speaker 3: What could possibly go wrong? The Rotten Tomatoes score was interesting. 82% from the critics, so they loved it. But 67% from the audience. Now, the critics' consensus is part revisionist war drama, part zombie thriller, and part all-out genre gore fest. Overlord offers A-level fun for B-movie fans who of multiple persuasions, which I thought was such a good way to put it, because there is something for everybody in this movie.
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Speaker 1: Multiple persuasions. You're right. It does hit on so many things. We talk about the action in it. There's what it is. It's kind of a war movie, if you like that. And yes, the zombie action. They use the word gore. I forgot about that. But some of this does get a little.
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Speaker 3: Yes it does um and look i i think i told you this beforehand because i couldn't understand who in the audience wouldn't have liked it and it was the biggest complaint was that it was historically inaccurate and i just want to say this to anyone who writes a review on overlord that you didn't like it because it was historically inaccurate they it's a movie about zombies You're worried about the World War II inaccuracies? Is this a joke right now? And it was a constant thing.
00:10:24
Speaker 1: I thought, people. It was constant?
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Speaker 3: That was the number one complaint. And I just thought, what movie did you think you were watching? You were not watching a documentary. You were watching a zombie movie.
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Speaker 1: But which part was historically inaccurate?
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Speaker 3: They were just like, there's no way that the Germans, blah, blah, blah. They had all sorts of weird. I could go pull up some of these reviews. They were hilarious.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so we are watching a zombie movie. The fact that it is a zombie movie makes it historically inaccurate.
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Speaker 2: Correct, correct. Its whole premise is historically laughable.
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Speaker 3: So let's everybody just get on the same page. Now, the audience, there were some audience members who loved it, and I loved their reviews, and I just wanted to share them.
00:11:03
Speaker 2: Paul D. wrote, J.J.
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Speaker 3: Abrams, Bad Germans, Big Studio Budget, Gore. It's funny because I don't think that I would call it stupid fun. I actually thought it was smart and intelligent and thrilling, but.
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Speaker 2: Some people see things differently.
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Speaker 1: Because he accepted robes that it's not historically.
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Speaker 3: Accurate and it's just fun yes um and and heather d wrote i love this this is funny this movie deserves a much higher score than it has found myself shouting fuck yeah an exorbitant amount of times while watching this yeah that one just summed it up for me i thought that was hilarious all right when we come back we're gonna tell you where to watch it and why this is a guaranteed horror hit welcome back everyone to your zombie sunday yes we are going over our top three favorite zombie movies as of late to get everybody into the halloween spirit and we are at our number two recommendation and it is 2018's overlord and you can watch this on paramount plus i believe you can watch it on hulu and for me if you're like me and i have an amazon prime with pretty much every add-on possible so just go to amazon prime and i'm sure i have a sub subscription that'll That we'll be.
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Speaker 2: Able to watch it on.
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Speaker 1: We just figured this out not too long ago. I can't remember how many hundreds of dollars we're now saving by consolidating all of our streaming apps. Yes. So we have some that I am the account holder.
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Speaker 2: Correct.
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Speaker 1: Others, you are. I think it was this movie I was looking for this morning. I was on my Hulu account and I was trying to get Overlord and it wouldn't play because I didn't have some add-on to it. Then I go over to Amazon Prime to look for it. Sure enough, you have the Paramount ad on there. So we're still, we're piecing it together. Yes, yes. Between the two of us, we got everything.
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Speaker 3: We do.
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Speaker 2: We pretty much have it all.
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Speaker 3: And hopefully you do too because this is such a great movie and why we think it's such a hit. Look, I think a lot of times couples struggle because not everybody likes horror and not everybody likes war movies. Not everybody likes an action movie. Certainly not everybody likes a comedy. This movie has something for everyone. So whether your girl or your guy doesn't like a war movie, they might like Wyatt Russell or they might like the horror element or the zombie element, or they might like the war element.
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Speaker 2: It's just, it's so thrilling.
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Speaker 1: The more you talk, this is a dude movie, isn't it?
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: You know what?
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Speaker 3: So it is more of a dude movie. And that's why I will tell you, I was not so keen on seeing it.
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Speaker 2: But I thought, you know what?
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Speaker 3: I'll just give it a solid and give it a go. They've got some great actors. I was so surprised at how much me, a chick who mostly likes, yes, I like horror movies, but I'm a rom-com kind of a girl. I loved this movie. You tell me a war movie, I'm like, yeah, I'll pass. I loved this film. And that is why I think it'll be something for everybody. Great cast, nonstop action. This was another review I loved. Overlord has it all. Action, fighting, gore, and zombies. What more needs to be said?
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Speaker 1: You know what? That was a little hard in this movie. You had to feel something for the lead guy. Yeah, there was a little pull of that. And this is.
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Speaker 1: This is a hit. I think this would be a hit with a crowd.
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Speaker 2: I think so, too.
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Speaker 1: I think folks would react to it differently. But you kind of want to look over at somebody and go, what the... Did that just happen? Like, holy hell. You're kind of... This is why it was a great one in the theater to experience with everybody.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: This is when you turn up your surround sound and let this thing.
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Speaker 3: That's so true. And look, this is fun because everyone... The common enemy, the Nazis are the bad guys the entire time.
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Speaker 2: And, well, I mean, there's some.
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Speaker 3: there's some questionable choices that every character makes just about, but, um, it is nice because you are that, that I think before the break, we said that one reviewer was like, I was just screaming.
00:15:11
Speaker 1: Fuck.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: At every scene.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: We're all, everybody hates the Nazis. They're terrible people. So they were terrible people.
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Speaker 3: And so, yes, it is kind of fun because you can rally around as a group and hate the enemy and not be, and be justified in doing so.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? You hated the enemy already, but then you found out what they were doing. What the people did. It's kind of, it goes along that theme and you come out of it hating Nazis more.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. It's kind of brilliant to think that they came up with this concept that the Nazis began a zombie attack because of all of the experiments they were doing on, on humans. And so it kind of like you could see where that could have happened. Obviously it didn't, but I like the premise. Like it, it, you can, you can see a foundation that you could believe in if it were to be true.
00:15:57
Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, this is a great film. Please check it out, everybody. Overlord. We guarantee it will get you into the Halloween spirit. So stay tuned.
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Speaker 3: We got our number one pick coming up next. So please look out for that in the feed. But in the meantime, we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Sunday, October 18th, and right now a lot of people are looking for a good horror movie. Well, we got a good one here for you, but it almost starts off as a war movie. So without getting Roblox approval, I'm going to try a new genre that I am naming War. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T. I should have, I should have crowd, I should have checked with the crowd.
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Speaker 2: Oh my God. Yeah, that was.
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Speaker 3: Funny.
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Speaker 1: It's a war movie.
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Speaker 2: A war movie.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's a war movie.
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Speaker 2: Now, how do you add a zombie twist to it all?
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Speaker 1: Oh, stop it. What did we have earlier? It was a Zom... A Zomcom. Okay, that was new to us.
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Speaker 3: That was our number three pick for our... This is actually a zombie-themed Sunday. And so, yes, our number two is an unexpected, incredible movie that we actually both saw individually in the theaters. And I didn't think I was going to like it. Because I'm not like a war movie kind of a person necessarily. But man, did I fall in love with this movie.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't go into it thinking. I mean, I knew the theme and the backdrop that served for what is mainly a zombie horror movie. But the war part of it is done so well that if you didn't know you were in a horror movie. Robes, it takes a minute before that mystery. This is a wonderfully done, powerful war movie for a little while.
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Speaker 2: War movie. You're right. It's just rolling right off the top.
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Speaker 1: It's catching on already. It is.
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Speaker 2: It's catching on. I can see it.
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Speaker 3: The movie we're talking about is Overlord. And it came out November 9th, 2018. And we just rewatched parts of it. And it's so good.
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Speaker 2: This is a movie.
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Speaker 1: It's heavy.
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Speaker 2: And it's a lot. It is action-packed. You're going to be on the edge of your seat.
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Speaker 3: And I think because it was so good, maybe I wanted to honor the memory of it.
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Speaker 2: And it's not something I've rewatched.
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Speaker 3: But now after just kind of wetting our palate with it again, I want to sit down and fully rewatch this movie.
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Speaker 2: It's that good.
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Speaker 1: And it's a wild ride from the beginning. And the action isn't light action. Like there is heavy fighting. And yes, even when the zombies and all this stuff shows up, there is a heaviness to all of the action and the jump scares and Even when you're finding out really what's happening and even before people start getting attacked, just the zombies themselves, how they come about. And the backstory of it all is a heavy theme that also goes with part of the war and who we're fighting.
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Speaker 2: The evil Nazis. Yes, it all goes back to the evil Nazis.
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Speaker 1: But please, folks need to know, this is not... a sit back and grab the popcorn. This is an intense movie.
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Speaker 2: You know what's funny?
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Speaker 3: So our number three, if you listened to our previous episode, we had our number three of the day of our zombie movies and.
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Speaker 2: The Dead Don't Die. This is literally the antithesis of that movie.
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Speaker 3: So if you're in for your well-acted, deadpan, kind of silly, funny, Zomcom, if you want the exact opposite experience, choose our number two film, And you will have a very different experience.
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Speaker 1: And you know, people are listening going, come on guys, give me something in the middle. Like we went one way with number three. I guess number one would maybe be in the middle. This one, if you watch the number three movies, Dead Don't Die, you go, come on, it's too slow. I can't deal with this. Put this one on. This will get you going. Yes.
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Speaker 3: Here's the synopsis of Overlord. On the eve of D-Day, American paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines to penetrate the walls of of a fortified church and destroy a radio transmitter. As the soldiers approach their target, they soon begin to realize that there's more going on in the Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation. Making their way to an underground lab, the outnumbered men stumble upon a sinister experiment that forces them into a vicious battle against an army of the undead.
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Speaker 1: That is a well-written synopsis. That's a good movie. Okay. If that is the subject of a movie, then you got something there. Now execute. And they execute it, babe, on that premise. It is so well done. The top of this movie, the beginning robes when they're in the plane, that whole scene is such an intense. That's a war movie. It is so well done. Even the characters, the guys are from Different backgrounds. You got the black guy that's being picked on. You got the guy from... Brooklyn. From Brooklyn.
00:04:37
Speaker 2: Chewing the gum.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's... He's like a newsie. They're great. They're great.
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Speaker 2: It's so good, yes.
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Speaker 3: And Giovanni Deppo, who is the black guy you were referring to, he is a very familiar face. He's actually a British black actor, but he's been in films like, oh, I don't know, The Odyssey. He was in The Leftovers. That was a very... highly acclaimed series on HBO. And then he was in Fences, you know, an Oscar movie there. So yes, with Denzel, he is amazing in this film. You fall in love with him. You're rooting for him the entire time.
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Speaker 1: He's the moral center of this movie.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: Everybody, even a lot of the good characters, even the woman they interact with. The French woman. She even has, right, some... And justifiable moral failings at times. This guy is the center. He sacrifices himself, almost the entire mission to do the simplest of things was to make sure a woman isn't harmed.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Right? He's a good lead.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he is.
00:05:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are.
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Speaker 3: And it's so important for a movie where you've got that person that you believe in, that you support, that you're rooting for. Now, Wyatt Russell is amazing. excellent in this movie. He is the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. And, you know, he, we were saying, we don't think he's done a lot. I love him in a black mirror episode, but he is so fantastic in this film. I wish he would do more because he's so good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's, um, he's, uh, which character he's, he's kind of the guy, he's the leader of the men and the unit. here but he is a he is a hard no frills you root for him we know yeah he's a good he's a he's a good.
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Speaker 3: Guy yes he he just he he does his he he performs so well like you feel something about his character and it's just it's He's an excellent part of this cast. Also, this was interesting. I looked at the director, Julius Avery. He also did one of our horror movie favorites, The Pope's Exorcist with Russell Crowe.
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Speaker 2: That was Sabine's first horror movie.
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Speaker 1: She loved that movie.
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Speaker 2: And it's really sinister and scary, by the way. We always like to add a little.
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Speaker 2: Fun movie recommendations in the middle of a movie recommendation.
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Speaker 3: And so, yes, The Pope's Exorcist is a very good, that's a good supernatural movie.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, throw that one.
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Speaker 3: It is.
00:07:03
Speaker 1: This is an honorable mention. We'll throw this. This is a bonus. Yes, he is. Russell Crowe really carries that movie.
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Speaker 3: He does.
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Speaker 1: He's a very rough kind of priest. Oh, yeah, he's really, really good.
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Speaker 3: Russell Crowe is hit or miss for me with a lot of movies, but he's great in this one.
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Speaker 1: He's always hit. You can't name him. You're not talking about Unhinged.
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Speaker 3: Ladies and Rob. I'm going to talk about Les Miserables. I love that movie and he almost ruined it for me.
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Speaker 1: How?
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Speaker 2: Because he was terrible.
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Speaker 3: At what?
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Speaker 1: Singing. But he's not a singer.
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Speaker 2: He shouldn't have been cast.
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Speaker 1: Well, get mad at the casting director. Don't get mad at him for putting himself out there.
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Speaker 2: He almost ruined Les Miserables for me. I'm sorry. He did. But he was great in The Pope's Exorcist. And so was Julius Avery, who directed both.
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Speaker 1: Now, J.J.
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Speaker 3: Abrams is a producer in this as well.
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Speaker 2: And that totally reads this.
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Speaker 1: Because you know what?
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Speaker 3: It feels Stephen King-esque to me. The premise, the guys, the camaraderie. You've got the moral dilemma. You've got the evildoer. And then you've got a surprise twist in this German laboratory that's wreaking havoc. It had those hallmarks to me. But then when I saw J.J. Abrams was a part of this. then that made a lot of sense. Now this movie is a little bit longer. Uh, we do like our hour 30. That is our sweet spot. But this got, um, this comes in at an hour and 50 minutes, but it is nonstop action.
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Speaker 2: You won't even, the time will fly.
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Speaker 3: In fact, um, truth be told, we were, we're actually in a hotel room and we were trying to pack and we were just putting it on and I was stopping packing because I couldn't stop watching the movie.
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Speaker 2: And you were like, babe, you know, we're not actually, we don't have time to rewatch the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: But I got sucked into the movie and, And I got up close to the TV and I just wanted to watch it.
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Speaker 1: This is a rare one, isn't it, Robes? That horror movie that also qualifies, I would say, as an action movie.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: There is more movement and action and things going on than you would, I think, get in most horror movies. And that is separate from a lot of the horror action that takes place in this movie. It made me think of World War Z. A little bit. There's a lot always going on.
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Speaker 3: That was a contender for this day. But we could do that as an honorable mention. But you thought it was too.
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Speaker 2: obvious.
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Speaker 3: Like, everyone knows World War Z, so we're not putting it on anyone's radar.
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Speaker 1: That's a good one. But if you don't know World War Z, we'll throw that one in there for the bonus.
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Speaker 2: And zombies.
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Speaker 3: What could possibly go wrong? The Rotten Tomatoes score was interesting. 82% from the critics, so they loved it. But 67% from the audience. Now, the critics' consensus is part revisionist war drama, part zombie thriller, and part all-out genre gore fest. Overlord offers A-level fun for B-movie fans who of multiple persuasions, which I thought was such a good way to put it, because there is something for everybody in this movie.
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Speaker 1: Multiple persuasions. You're right. It does hit on so many things. We talk about the action in it. There's what it is. It's kind of a war movie, if you like that. And yes, the zombie action. They use the word gore. I forgot about that. But some of this does get a little.
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Speaker 3: Yes it does um and look i i think i told you this beforehand because i couldn't understand who in the audience wouldn't have liked it and it was the biggest complaint was that it was historically inaccurate and i just want to say this to anyone who writes a review on overlord that you didn't like it because it was historically inaccurate they it's a movie about zombies You're worried about the World War II inaccuracies? Is this a joke right now? And it was a constant thing.
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Speaker 1: I thought, people. It was constant?
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Speaker 3: That was the number one complaint. And I just thought, what movie did you think you were watching? You were not watching a documentary. You were watching a zombie movie.
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Speaker 1: But which part was historically inaccurate?
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Speaker 3: They were just like, there's no way that the Germans, blah, blah, blah. They had all sorts of weird. I could go pull up some of these reviews. They were hilarious.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so we are watching a zombie movie. The fact that it is a zombie movie makes it historically inaccurate.
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Speaker 2: Correct, correct. Its whole premise is historically laughable.
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Speaker 3: So let's everybody just get on the same page. Now, the audience, there were some audience members who loved it, and I loved their reviews, and I just wanted to share them.
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Speaker 2: Paul D. wrote, J.J.
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Speaker 3: Abrams, Bad Germans, Big Studio Budget, Gore. It's funny because I don't think that I would call it stupid fun. I actually thought it was smart and intelligent and thrilling, but.
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Speaker 2: Some people see things differently.
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Speaker 1: Because he accepted robes that it's not historically.
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Speaker 3: Accurate and it's just fun yes um and and heather d wrote i love this this is funny this movie deserves a much higher score than it has found myself shouting fuck yeah an exorbitant amount of times while watching this yeah that one just summed it up for me i thought that was hilarious all right when we come back we're gonna tell you where to watch it and why this is a guaranteed horror hit welcome back everyone to your zombie sunday yes we are going over our top three favorite zombie movies as of late to get everybody into the halloween spirit and we are at our number two recommendation and it is 2018's overlord and you can watch this on paramount plus i believe you can watch it on hulu and for me if you're like me and i have an amazon prime with pretty much every add-on possible so just go to amazon prime and i'm sure i have a sub subscription that'll That we'll be.
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Speaker 2: Able to watch it on.
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Speaker 1: We just figured this out not too long ago. I can't remember how many hundreds of dollars we're now saving by consolidating all of our streaming apps. Yes. So we have some that I am the account holder.
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Speaker 2: Correct.
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Speaker 1: Others, you are. I think it was this movie I was looking for this morning. I was on my Hulu account and I was trying to get Overlord and it wouldn't play because I didn't have some add-on to it. Then I go over to Amazon Prime to look for it. Sure enough, you have the Paramount ad on there. So we're still, we're piecing it together. Yes, yes. Between the two of us, we got everything.
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Speaker 3: We do.
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Speaker 2: We pretty much have it all.
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Speaker 3: And hopefully you do too because this is such a great movie and why we think it's such a hit. Look, I think a lot of times couples struggle because not everybody likes horror and not everybody likes war movies. Not everybody likes an action movie. Certainly not everybody likes a comedy. This movie has something for everyone. So whether your girl or your guy doesn't like a war movie, they might like Wyatt Russell or they might like the horror element or the zombie element, or they might like the war element.
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Speaker 2: It's just, it's so thrilling.
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Speaker 1: The more you talk, this is a dude movie, isn't it?
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: You know what?
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Speaker 3: So it is more of a dude movie. And that's why I will tell you, I was not so keen on seeing it.
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Speaker 2: But I thought, you know what?
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Speaker 3: I'll just give it a solid and give it a go. They've got some great actors. I was so surprised at how much me, a chick who mostly likes, yes, I like horror movies, but I'm a rom-com kind of a girl. I loved this movie. You tell me a war movie, I'm like, yeah, I'll pass. I loved this film. And that is why I think it'll be something for everybody. Great cast, nonstop action. This was another review I loved. Overlord has it all. Action, fighting, gore, and zombies. What more needs to be said?
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Speaker 1: You know what? That was a little hard in this movie. You had to feel something for the lead guy. Yeah, there was a little pull of that. And this is.
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Speaker 1: This is a hit. I think this would be a hit with a crowd.
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Speaker 2: I think so, too.
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Speaker 1: I think folks would react to it differently. But you kind of want to look over at somebody and go, what the... Did that just happen? Like, holy hell. You're kind of... This is why it was a great one in the theater to experience with everybody.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: This is when you turn up your surround sound and let this thing.
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Speaker 3: That's so true. And look, this is fun because everyone... The common enemy, the Nazis are the bad guys the entire time.
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Speaker 2: And, well, I mean, there's some.
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Speaker 3: there's some questionable choices that every character makes just about, but, um, it is nice because you are that, that I think before the break, we said that one reviewer was like, I was just screaming.
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Speaker 1: Fuck.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: At every scene.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: We're all, everybody hates the Nazis. They're terrible people. So they were terrible people.
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Speaker 3: And so, yes, it is kind of fun because you can rally around as a group and hate the enemy and not be, and be justified in doing so.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? You hated the enemy already, but then you found out what they were doing. What the people did. It's kind of, it goes along that theme and you come out of it hating Nazis more.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. It's kind of brilliant to think that they came up with this concept that the Nazis began a zombie attack because of all of the experiments they were doing on, on humans. And so it kind of like you could see where that could have happened. Obviously it didn't, but I like the premise. Like it, it, you can, you can see a foundation that you could believe in if it were to be true.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, this is a great film. Please check it out, everybody. Overlord. We guarantee it will get you into the Halloween spirit. So stay tuned.
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Speaker 3: We got our number one pick coming up next. So please look out for that in the feed. But in the meantime, we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk soon.